On This Day In Boxing History

1978: Victor Galindez vs Yaqui López II!

May 6th

1733: First international boxing match Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni.

1898: James J. Jeffries W20 Tom Sharkey

1900: Jack Johnson KO2 Jim McCormick

1920: Johnny Wilson W12 Mike O’Dowd

1960: Iran Barkley is born in Mott Have, Bronx, New York

1967: Carlos Monzon D10 Bennie Briscoe

1970: Rosendo Alvarez is born in Managua, Nicaragua

1978: Victor Galindez W15 Yaqui Lopez

Ricardo Cardona KO12 Soo Hwan Hong

Netmoi Varasingh W15 Freddy Castillo

1985: Santos Laciar W15 Antoine Montero

1988: Rolando Bohol W15 Cho Woon Park

1989: Roy Jones Jr. age 20 debuts TKO2 Ricky Randall

1994: Lennox Lewis KO8 Phil Jackson

Kevin Kelly W12 Jesse Benevides

John David Jackson RTD7 Jeff Johnson

Andrew Golota TKO1 Terry Davis

1995: Oscar De La Hoya KO2 Rafael Ruelas

Gabriel Ruelas KO11 Jimmy Garcia

Johnny Tapia Tech. Draw8 Ricardo Vargas

Juan Martin Coggi W10 Hiroyuki Sakamoto

Naseem Hamed KO2 Enrique Angeles

Dana Rosenblatt KO1 Chad Parker

1998: Former WBA Heavyweight Champion Bruce Seldon, pleads guilty to giving marijuana and having sex 15-year-old girl

2000: Juan Carlos Gomez KO3 Imamu Mayfield

Glenn Catley KO12 Markus Beyer, Frankfurt

Paul Spadafora WMTD10 Mike Griffith

Johnny Tapia W12 Pedro Javier Torres

Daniel Santos KO5 Akhmed Kotiev

2006: Gennady Golovkin age 24 debuts KO1 Gabor Balogh

Oscar De La Hoya KO6 Ricardo Mayorga

Jose Antonio Rivera W12 Alex Garcia

Luis Perez W12 Dimitri Kirilov

Eagle Kyowa W12 Rodel Moyal

Muhammad Rachman KO6 Omar Soto

Zsolt Erdei TKO10 Paul Murdoch

2007: Guillermo Mosquera KO12 Lance Gostelow

2013: Liborio Solis MD12 Kohei Kono    

Takashi Uchiyama KO5 Jaider Parra    

2015: Takashi Uchiyama TKO2 Tanakorn Phawachart           

Ryoichi Taguchi TKO8 Ekavit Songnui  

Kumiko Seeser Ikehara TD7 Kayoko Ebata

2017: Eva Wahlstrom W10 Mayra Alejandra Gomez

Joseph Parker W12 Razvan Cojanu

Saul Alvarez W12 Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

2024: Jermall Charlo Arrested And Charged With DWI Following Collision!